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Red carpet hayloft
Categories: EditorialI prefer books and sky to screens and Hollywood, but the fact that kerchief-clad colony women will appear on-screen at Hollywood’s biggest event creates a moment of opportunity for our…
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Film review: sorrow, joy, anger and faith
Categories: Feature ArticlesWhat do we do when we are wronged: Nothing? Stay and fight? Or do we leave? These questions form the backbone of Women Talking, a 2022 film directed by Sarah…
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What about the women of Manitoba Colony?
Categories: Feature ArticlesAfter opening in select movie theatres before Christmas, Women Talking received a wide release last month. For Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, it marked 10 years since she interviewed some of the women…
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Barns and kerchiefs
Categories: Feature ArticlesNot many farmers walk out of a movie theatre and say, “It’s a lot of fun seeing our farm on the big screen.” But that’s what Chris Burkholder thought after…
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Readers write: February 27, 2023 issue
Categories: OpinionComplexities of pacifism Below are four responses to “Conscientious” (Jan. 30), which critiqued the Canadian government purchase of fighter jets. Horrors in Ukraine If countries do not stand up to…
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Camp really matters
Categories: OpinionThe smell of pancakes on the griddle, the roar of laughter while trying new activities, and the joyful noise of campfire singing are forever etched in my heart. Summer camps…
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CMC Yearbooks
Categories: OpinionThe Konferenz der Mennoniten in Canada—now Mennonite Church Canada—was formed in 1902. In 1928, the conference started publishing an official Jahrbuch (yearbook) which documented proceedings and decisions at the annual…
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Dump truck affirmation
Categories: OpinionIn this new-ish year, I find myself searching out new-ish challenges. My youngest brother and I have been trading off shifts driving a dump truck in Saskatoon, which is still…
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Beyond free speech
Categories: OpinionThe fellows at the next table were running on and on about refugees. So many false statements! I gritted my teeth as I sipped my coffee that morning. “No!” I…
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A shielded sleep
Categories: OpinionWhat keeps you up at night? Do the anxieties of your day taunt you as you lay awake? I don’t usually have much trouble falling asleep—my wife can attest to…
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Two Ohio families move to Ontario
Categories: NewsTwo Ohio families with 300 years of history in the U.S. began to consider leaving America when the two brothers and their wives faced workplace transitions in 2021. Ryan and…
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B.C. church supports Indigenous art project
Categories: NewsThree panels with images of bears, butterflies, salmon and eagles grace the central hallway of Uplands Elementary School in Langley, B.C. Part of a joint project by the school and…
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‘Maria and the Mennos’ set to air in September
Categories: NewsThe story of a young Filipina woman who marries into a Mennonite family and moves in with her in-laws will soon be broadcast on screens across Canada. Maria and the…
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The question of camps
Categories: Focus on Camps“People used to work at camp because it was the right thing to do. They’d say things like: ‘I’d work 18-hour days, was paid very little, never got breaks, took…
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‘More of a home than my actual home’
Categories: Focus on CampsA long, long time ago—way back in 1955—Fraser Lake Camp was born in the hearts and minds of three Mennonite pastors: Emerson McDowell, John H. Hess and Glen Brubacher. Their…
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‘A camp cabin is a messy thing’
Categories: Focus on CampsWhen thinking of the word “faith,” Silver Lake comes directly to mind. Camp provides me with the space to integrate faith into daily life. Campfire songs, morning and evening reflections,…
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Camp and mental health
Categories: Focus on CampsThe summer of 2022 was a re-opening in a multitude of ways. After two summers in various states of restrictions, we were able to be together in all of our…
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Connecting with faith at camp
Categories: Focus on CampsHidden Acres Mennonite Camp was excited to celebrate 60 years of camp over the past season. It was a season of seeing new things that the Lord is doing, and…
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The evangelical edge
Categories: EditorialTwo readers recently wrote to me with concerns. “Over the years that we have received [CM],” wrote a Manitoba couple, “we have detected a constant shift toward liberal theology. .…
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Witness
Categories: Feature ArticlesI stand on the very spot where it all began, in a former Catholic church in the village of Pingjum, Netherlands. Here, the priest Menno Simons was called to account…
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